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Drafting is the act of composing technical drawings to visually communicate how something functions or is constructed. A drafter or draftsperson creates these technical drawings, which are used in engineering and industry as the visual language to represent mechanical and architectural structures. Drafting is an essential method of communication between designers, clients, architects, builders, engineers and production personnel. It allows initial plans and ideas to be expanded, clarified and modified in an organized manner. There are different types of lines used in technical drafting, including isometric drawings which show the spatial relationships of objects without distortion. The major types of drafting include furniture, architectural, mechanical, electrical, topographical, airplane, ship, and structural drafting.

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Drafting

Drafting is the act of composing technical drawings to visually communicate how something functions or is constructed. A drafter or draftsperson creates these technical drawings, which are used in engineering and industry as the visual language to represent mechanical and architectural structures. Drafting is an essential method of communication between designers, clients, architects, builders, engineers and production personnel. It allows initial plans and ideas to be expanded, clarified and modified in an organized manner. There are different types of lines used in technical drafting, including isometric drawings which show the spatial relationships of objects without distortion. The major types of drafting include furniture, architectural, mechanical, electrical, topographical, airplane, ship, and structural drafting.

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DRAFTING

Drafting is the act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something
functions or has to be constructed. Drafting is the visual language of industry and engineering.

A Drafter, Draftsman and Draftsperson is a person who makes a technical drawing. A professional
drawer who makes technical drawings is sometimes called drafting technician.

Drafting is the term used to refer to the systematic representation and dimensional specification of
mechanical and architectural structures.

TOOLS AND EQUIPMENTS IN DRAFTING

Drawing board/Table

Drawing paper/plates
Technical pen

Mechanical pen

Eraser
Compass

T square

Triangles
Ruler

What is the importance of drafting in TLE?


*DRAFTING – essential method of communication. between designers and clients, architects and
builders, engineers and production personnel between.

What is the importance of learning drafting?


Drafting helps students expand upon, clarify, and modify their initial plans and ideas, and it helps them
organize their content into a meaningful sequence or flow.

Types of line used in Technical Drafting


In an isometric drawing, all lines parallel to the three principal axes of the object are drawn at the same
angle to each other. Typically, these angles are 30 degrees from the horizontal in either direction. This
consistent angle ensures that the lengths of lines drawn parallel to the axes are accurately scaled relative
to each other.

Isometric drawings are commonly used in fields such as engineering, architecture, and industrial design
to communicate design concepts, construction details, and assembly instructions. They offer a clear and
precise way to convey the spatial relationships and proportions of objects without the distortion often
associated with perspective drawings.

The major kinds of drafting are furniture drafting, architectural drafting, and mechanical or machine
drafting, electrical and electronics drafting, topographical drafting, airplane drafting, ship or naval
drafting, structural drafting.

Furniture drafting includes not only the making of working drawings of the various types of furniture but
also the designing of them.

Architectural drafting pertains to the making of working plans for buildings for residential, business,
manufacturing, religious, recreational and storage purposes.

Machine drafting is the preparation of detail and assembly working drawings of machines and their
parts.

Electrical and electronics drafting produces schematic wiring diagrams for either house wiring
connections and radio and television receivers and transmitters or the installation of electrically-
operated machines.

Topographical drafting is the making of plots or maps for various purposes.


Airplane drafting concerns the preparation of working drawings of aircraft, including helicopters, planes,
rockets and spaceships. Ship drafting is the making of working plans for all types of ship and for either
commercial or naval purposes.

Structural drafting refers to the making of working drawings of steel buildings, bridges, towers, dams
and so forth. Sheet-metal drafting is the development of surfaces of various objects made of galvanized
iron, steel aluminum or copper sheets. It includes pattern development for chimneys, downspouts,
water tanks and air-conditioning ducts, among many others.

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